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Summary: Spectacular Bad Taste
Review: This is the first and best of the four "Ilsa" films featuring the sensational Dyanne Thorne, who plays the sadistic head doctor in a Nazi death-camp that specializes in cruel experiments on nude women. Sounds too tasteless to be bearable? Well, actually no. If you can retain your sense of humour, you can find this film thoroughly enjoyable. It's mainly down to the hilarious camp acting of Thorn in the title role, whether she is strutting around the camp, spitting insults in a thick hammy accent at all the inmates, or seducing male prisoners in her boudoir using her famous chest to maximum effect. Still, the various scenes of torture are surprisingly convincing, and very realistic, especially those carried out by Ilsa in her secret torture chamber on a prize female subject, so this is definitely not a film for the squeamish. Theres even room for suspense during the climax when Ilsa's cruel reign is finally overturned. Overall, an enjoyable romp for people who have seen everything the mainstream has to offer. But due to such scenes as fingernail pulling, torture by electrified dildo and castration, prepare your friends before you show it to any of them!
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Summary: The Standard Setter within the Genre
Review: This is the standard to which all 1970's Sleazy B movies have to be compared! Thorn is excellent as the dominant, well endowed, Mistress of the Prison Camps...The Guards, The Prisoners and the Viewers will learn to Serve Ilsa's Needs and Desires! Thorn made 4 of these films...the sleazest one "Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia" is apparently not being rereleased...it is a pity!
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Summary: Kind of Boring
Review: This movie is okay as a piece of schlock. There is some funny overacting, it has an interesting history (e.g. being filmed on the Hogan's Heroes set), the villians are absolutely nuts, etc., and it manages to treat the victims sympathetically enough to avoid completely offending, but I found watching it quite tedious. The story is about a camp run by a sadistic medical experimenter who tortures women (in an attempt to prove they can withstand more pain than males), and keeps a few males around to service her and do heavier labour. Much of the film is taken up by a rather minimal and relatively boring plot about the inmates planning an escape (i.e., standing around and not really doing anything other than reminding the audience that they don't like living in a medical experimentation camp) occassionally interrupted by somewhat gory but tedious torture scenes and a couple of silly love scenes. This is all topped off at the end by (FINALLY) a silly escape scene in which, e.g., soldiers fall down dead after supposedly being shot, despite the fact they don't have any bullet wounds. It does have a nicely ironic ending, but it is not worth sitting through the movie for.Basically, its explicitness is all that separates this film from schlocky TV movies (many of which, like the Winds of War II with its full frontal nudity gas shower scene, have also cashed in on the tragedies of WWII, but to greater critical acclaim). The few, usually brief, gore scenes are in more detail than is necessary to advance the plot (well, I guess that's why it's an "exploitation" film), but then again the gore isn't as bad as the movie's rep suggests, so if that's what you're looking for you'll be dissappointed. And I don't want to meet anyone looking to be titillated by the torture scenes, but I'll bet they'll be dissappointed as well. So, in other words, there is no reason to get this movie when there are so many others that will fulfill a viewer's need for gore and exploitation, and in a more entertaining and intelligent fashion (e.g. Argento movies).
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Summary: A waste of time...
Review: This movie is terrible on so many different levels. The acting is awful. The script is absurd. No doubt many of the positive reviews stem from the bevy of gorgeous babes paraded about in the nude. But, honestly, if naked women are your pleasure, surely you can find better movies than this to watch. As I think about it, though, I suppose the S&M crowd must think that Ilsa is a great piece of work. There are certainly more than enough naked women being tortured to satisfy the needs of the freaks among us. Ilsa is a movie which many will buy just to say they saw something nasty. It is nasty but so what. It is also boring and absurd-don't waste your money.
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Summary: ILSA...THE INCREDIBILY MIXED UP SHE WOLF
Review: This movie was one of the most sickest and brutal movies ever made and its AWESOME! dyan thorne is a good actress as well as a very sexy woman.The dialouge was laughable and the rest of the actors were mediocre at best but still this film has a certain dark charm that makes you want to watch it again.I wonder if the producers of HOGAN'S HEROES knew their set was going to be used for such a nasty film.In short,go rent or but this film!
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Summary: The heights of perversion
Review: Thsi movie is a testament to "you have no right not to be offended!" It is wonderful! So wonderful the producer and one actor used psuedonyms and the lead actress (Dyanne Thorne) saw her carrer ruined by its release! Ilsa is the head of a concentration camp that is tying to produce a female superarms. She tortures the women to prove they have a higher pain threshold while at night she sleeps with handpicked men to find the one and only who can satisfy her! Classic trash from the Nazi Exploitation genre. The dark side of The Night Porter (another fine DVD worth seeing).
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Summary: GOOD ENOUGH FOR EVEN THE MOST JADED MOVIE FAN!!!!!
Review: Well we've finally found a movie where the director actually had a pair. I admittedly purchased this movie on merit of the reviews here at amazon, and for once I was not dissapointed. There are so many movies that claim to shock, upset, or disturb the viewers, when actually all they do is bore, frustrate, and annoy. There are many films I can recall seeing that had a lot of hype to them, just to let me down when I watched them. The camera would always pan away from the good scenes or the film would just jump to another part, mostly implying what they should be showing! I love my country, but the censorship here is rediculous. Sorry, just venting. Anyway, I recieved my copy of Ilsa-She Wolf Of The SS and was prepaired to once again be let down. I was pleasantly surprised by this film. Now this is how to make a shocking movie. No holds barred in this one folks. You are shown everything without the camera leaving the brutallity at all. There is graphic violence, Torture, humiliation, rape, whippings, burnings, shockings, sex, and tons of nudity. Not to mention Mrs. Thorne(as Ilsa) is one hot lady, as well as a great villaness. Oh, what is the movie about? Well, mostly it's about a nazi medical camp where woman are brought in for gruesome experiments. Ilsa runs the camp and want's to prove to the general that woman can handle pain better than men. So thats where the torture and such comes into play. Also Ilsa has a lustful appetite for both men and women. The only downfall of being with this busty beauty is that if you don't satisfy her evey sexual desire to her liking, than you get it cut off.(get my drift?) Yes Ilsa is one of the most brutally awsome movies I had ever seen and I recommend it to any experianced fan of the genre. Novice's might want to start out with something a little less graphic as Ilsa will indeed disturb, upset, and shock some. I wouldn't throw this movie in on date night either or you'll probably have her running for the door. In fact, make sure there are no ladies around and especially children when you watch this movie. This is good for a friday night with some buddies and a case of beer. Just one more thing. I opened with saying that a director finally had a pair, well he lost that pair by having his name removed from this film. Maybe he ran into Ilsa one evening and couldn't take care of busniess. GET THIS MOVIE WHILE IT'S STILL AVALIBLE!! NEVER FORGET 9/11/01.
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Summary: The worst movie I ever saw
Review: Well, that was the worst movie I saw in my life... It was not interesting, entertaining, hot, sexy, etc. - it was just ugly... I expected it to be unconventional and funky but at least I expected it to have some taste - it was the most tasteless work I ever saw... Do not by it - it is complete waste of time and money.
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Summary: JUNK
Review: Who had the idea for this junk? It's sad to hear the actors trying to be Germans, there's few female nudity, the girls are very ugly. Blood? That's red painting and strawberry jelly made at home. And the tortures they have are nothing. Tickles are more cruel than the tortures in this film. And the hero, he's blonde with a white smile, he's clean and just shaved, while the other prisoners are dirty and gross. Save your money for a movie with perfect chicks and a lot of female nudity, not for this junk.
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Summary: In praise of Dyanne Thorne.
Review: Yes, you have found the infamous Ilsa movie, complete with castration for male prisoners who just can't cut the mustard and bring the camp commandant (Ilsa) to the Screaming O and "selection" of the most "fit" female prisoners. All manner of torture, degredation, humiliation and nudity are included in this film. My wife raised some hell after she saw that I had bought this 1970's exploitation classic, she was expecting another Schindlers List when I told her the movie was about a WW2 prison camp! Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa) struts around the camp in nice tight garments, riding crop in hand ready to dish out punishment for the slightest infraction, and she is good at it. Filmed on the former set of Hogan's Heros the TV show, there are no Col. Klinck or Sgt. Schultz in this movie, only nasty predators and frightened victims. Sweet innocent young girls forced to strip for inspection and punishment...and there is plenty of punishment. The carnage and torture just keeps escalating until of course the tables are turned and Ilsa receives her richly deserved fate. Despite all the gore if you can sit and watch this without cracking up I'd be suprised, it's so disgusting that it is funny. Dyanne Thorne is real easy on the eyes and does a great job. I love all the cheesy fake German accents. Your wife might get pissed too but this film is just to good to pass by, and there is no way you'll find it at Blockbuster. Buy it before it vanishes again.
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